Arch Photo KC

The historic transformation of Grand Place keeps getting better! 🥳
Following our Tria Health photoshoot in November 2024, we returned to capture the newly-installed marquee smokestack sign lighting up the KC skyline in November 2025. Designed with our original client Generator Studio, engineered by PMA Engineering, and fabricated by Midwest Sign Company, the new sign is a bold visual marker for the ongoing redevelopment of the former Kansas City Star building. As new tenants and energy continue to fill this iconic space, it’s exciting to cement another chapter in the evolution of this historic property. 🙌

Development

This past fall I had the opportunity to document the new Kansas Department of Health and Environment Laboratory in Topeka, KS for Clark & Enerson (architect), McCownGordon Construction (GC) and Doherty Steel (structural steel contractor).

Our focus was on capturing the new interior murals and a wide range of exterior imagery. Clark & Enersen had requested street life in the exterior shots, and we got lucky with a biker, a person on a scooter, several pedestrians, and of course, I appeared in a few shots myself, setting up the camera from across the busy street on a timer. It’s always entertaining when drivers waiting in traffic are trying to figure out what in the world the photographer is doing! We were fortunate that it was a beautiful day with a deep blue sky, which always makes the images pop.

Like all architecture shoots, there were many hours of detailed Photoshop work behind the scenes—cleaning up streets, fixing grass, removing long shadows from the bus stop, erasing erroneous items from window reflections, then overall refining the final compositions and making all individual images complement each other as a collection. Most of that work is invisible to the client, but comparing the before-and-afters always shows a powerful transformation.

KDHE's $73 million state-of-the-art 100,000 SF facility was completed in March 2025 and replaced their old, outdated facility. Today it employs 85 people and provides over 1 million clinical and environmental tests annually. The project reflects an impressive level of planning and efficiency, and we are so proud to help document our clients' hard work. Congrats to all involved!

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💫 Women in Construction Week feels like the perfect time to reflect on a journey I never planned — but am incredibly grateful for every day.

About 10 years ago, I fell into construction photography (and marketing overall) while working with Neighbors Construction on to document the restoration of the Kansas City Power & Light Building and the construction of Power & Light North, both to be known as Power & Light Apartments. What started as an opportunity quickly turned into discovering an entire area of photography I had never even considered: documenting the people, projects, and progress that shape our built environment.

A decade later, I still work for Neighbors Construction part-time, handling all of their marketing initiatives, and this experience opened doors I never imagined and led to working with amazing companies across the industry. I also had the pleasure of working with Doherty Steel over a 3+ year period, capturing dynamic images of structural steel and precast er****on to help showcase their brand in a new website, social media, corporate artwork, and much more.

Other clients I have worked with for photography include Goodwin Brothers, Centric, Enterprise Precast Concrete, Enerfab, Inc., Century Building Solutions, BSM Wall Systems, Rose Design Build, Inc., KBS Constructors and ALTUS GROUP.

Every time I am on a site, I am truly amazed. Construction is more than job sites and structures — it’s teamwork, craftsmanship, innovation, and pride. Getting to tell those stories through photography is something I truly love. I feel incredibly blessed and thankful to work in an industry that welcomes creativity, values relationships, and builds communities in such tangible ways. Every project, every early morning shoot, and every hard-hat moment reminds me why I love what I do.

👷‍♀️ Happy Women in Construction Week to all the talented women building, leading, designing, managing, creating, and supporting this industry every day. You inspire me constantly!